I awoke with lightning behind my eyes,pushing painkillers into pursed lips,wondering if it got any better,but deciding not to tempt fate,and to just take it as it came. I recalled her eyes so bright,in our beautiful playground,the places she takes me,when my eyes are heavy,and it took the edge off a little. Last night,when the…

I know I have to do this on my own.I know there can’t be any shadows to speak up for me,but I’m so sick of the sound of my own voice,so won’t you stay, and say something? Your softness has such strength,gentle, tender ocean,inevitably in and out at the will of the tide.Is it too…

Power is what I always planned to have,but it slipped through my fingers, just like the rain slips away from clingy clouds,a loud sigh fills the air,and my eyes are dry but dismal. Balance is something I never could master,pursued but never caught,I fall down as I walk, like a beautiful bomb,chaos rains around my…

I let her have my lonely, hopeful prayer,waiting and whispering for the familiar, fair light to fall upon me.Her grace flows as she surrounds me,gentle balm to my beating, weeping heart,and I beat the sky in the race to raise daylight,as she arrives, enchanting and without exasperation.

What became of you?That’s the question that cascades from chaotic whispers as I catch my gaze in the mirror, and gasp,laughing at the lack of lines in my ageing face as another day dawns. I write myself a postcard,calling into the radio four,but nobody ever answers,because I stopped existing when she kissed me this morning.…